{"id":1518964,"date":"2026-06-29T08:27:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T13:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?guid=89eb3548ce3ad1489d443548cd2d5baa"},"modified":"2026-06-29T08:53:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T13:53:46","slug":"manhunt-underway-after-2-year-old-2-women-killed-in-horrifying-mississippi-shooting-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1518964","title":{"rendered":"Manhunt underway after 2-year-old, 2 women killed in &#8216;horrifying&#8217; Mississippi shooting, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/6418da75d587dc7ff2a00db5a92bdf19.jpg\" alt\/><figcaption>Police in Jackson, Mississippi, investigate a triple homicide on Saturday, June 28, 2026. (Jackson Police Department)<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>(JACKSON, Miss) -- Police in Mississippi are searching for a suspect after two woman and a toddler were shot and killed on Saturday.<\/p><p>The women, aged 26 and 20, were found dead alongside a 2-year-old, Jackson Police Department Chief RaShall Brackney told reporters early on Sunday.<\/p><p>Police had responded to a call for an aggravated assault on the 300 block of Queen Alexandria Lane at about 10:10 p.m. on Saturday, Brackney said, adding, \"And what they found was something horrifying.\"<\/p><p>All three victims had \"multiple\" gunshot wounds, she said.<\/p><p>Police early on Sunday said they were searching for a Red Mitsubishi Mirage that \"was taken.\" Brackney did not say whether police had identified a suspect, but said that the person who had taken the vehicle was thought to be \"armed and dangerous and is related to this triple homicide that we have here.\"<\/p><p>In an update later on Sunday, police said they had found the vehicle in North Jackson, but it was \"unoccupied at the time it was located.\"<\/p><p>Jackson Mayor John Horhn said in a statement that the city would begin deploying additional resources to combat gun violence.<\/p><p>\"Our city is hurting. In recent days, we have seen a troubling rise in gun-related violence, shootings, and senseless loss of life,\" he said. \"No family should have to face the pain of losing a loved one to violence. Violence against the innocent is intolerable, and as your Mayor, I will not accept this as the norm for our community.\"<\/p><p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Jackson, Mississippi, investigate a triple homicide on Saturday, June 28, 2026. (Jackson Police Department)(JACKSON, Miss) &#8212; Police in Mississippi are searching for a suspect after two woman and a toddler were shot and killed on Saturday.The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4463,"featured_media":1518971,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/6418da75d587dc7ff2a00db5a92bdf19.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1447],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1518964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abc-national-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":true,"date":"2026-07-01 08:53:31","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[0],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/6418da75d587dc7ff2a00db5a92bdf19.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4463"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1518964"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1518972,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518964\/revisions\/1518972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1518971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1518964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1518964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1518964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}